Proton chemical shifts in NMR. Part 14. Proton chemical shifts, ring currents and π electron effects in condensed aromatic hydrocarbons and substituted benzenes

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Abstract

The proton resonance spectra of a variety of condensed aromatic compounds including benzene, naphthalene, anthracene, phenanthrene, pyrene, acenaphthylene and triphenylene were obtained in dilute CDCl3 solution. Comparison of the proton chemical shifts obtained with previous literature data for CCl4 solution shows small but significant differences. A previous model (CHARGE6) for calculating the proton chemical shifts of aliphatic compounds was extended to aromatic compounds. This was achieved by including an automatic identification of both five- and six-membered aromatic rings based on atomic connectivities plus a dipole calculation of the aromatic ring current. The ring current intensity in the molecules was calculated by two alternative methods. a) The ring current intensity in the individual benzenoid rings was a function of the number of adjoining rings and b) the molecular ring current was proportional to the molecular area divided by the molecular perimeter. This, plus the inclusion of deshielding steric effects for the crowded protons in these molecules, gave a good account of the observed chemical shifts. The model was also applied successfully to the non-alternant hydrocarbons of fulvene and acenaphthylene and to the aliphatic protons near to and above the benzene ring in tricyclophane and [10]cyclophane.

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